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Northern Michigan Review has implemented Facebook's comments plugin on its Petoskey News-Review, Charlevoix Courier and Gaylord Herald Times websites. Numerous other news outlets have begun using Facebook's comments plugin, including the Detroit Free Press and the Los Angeles Times, in an effort to offer a simpler, more interactive and more enjoyable commenting experience for readers. Following are some frequently asked questions regarding Facebook's comments plugin: Q: Why switch to Facebook commenting?

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge has ordered a murder trial for a 23-year-old woman accused of starting a fatal high-speed chase in a Facebook feud with a woman over the affections of a prison inmate. Pontiac District Judge Cynthia Walker says there's enough evidence to try Torrie Emery for second-degree murder in the July 21 death of 21-year-old Alesha Abernathy. A phone message seeking comment was left for defense lawyer Michael J. McCarthy. Police say Emery saw rival Danielle Booth in the passenger seat of Abernathy's car and gave chase.

PETOSKEY - Petoskey's Wolf Byte Marketing now offers social media and management and design services, with a goal of helping Northern Michigan businesses improve their online marketing affordably. “Managing social media channels like Facebook and Twitter can be very time-consuming and the average business owner has so many other priorities,” said Marcie Wolf, owner of Wolf Byte Marketing. “People understand the importance of staying active with their social media marketing but they just don't have the time.” Wolf Byte Marketing offers services to help businesses promote their brand online using social media channels with highly engaged audiences.

Will you be my friend? I'm not sure if I want to be friends with him. I have 64 friends. How many do you have? Although this might sound like a conversation I overheard in my daughter's second-grade classroom, they are actually thoughts that went through my mind during the past month since I joined the social networking Web site Facebook. After hearing people talk about Facebook for some time, I resisted setting up an account until recently because I figured: Who really cares what I'm up to. I finally signed up in late December, after receiving an e-mail from my high school class president inviting class members to join so we can keep in touch about our upcoming 20-year class reunion.

GAYLORD — The 40th class reunion of Gaylord High School and Gaylord St. Mary High School will be Saturday, July 16, at the Otsego County Fire Department building, beginning at 3 p.m. The cost of the event is $10 per person or $20 per couple. To RSVP or for more information, contact Katie (Love) Bobowski at 231-582-2408 or boboyneskia@hotmail.com or Linda (Kolasa) Barker at 231-946-4467 or lindajbarker@msn.com. Information is also available on Facebook at Gaylord, Michigan class of 1971.

WHAT DO YOU SEE? Call in the lowest gas prices you see (231) 347-2544; post them in the comments section on this gas prices story. Or find us on Facebook . Here's what you told us online that you saw and what we saw, by 9 a.m. today, Friday, Aug. 26. Call in the lowest gas prices you see (231) 347-2544; post them at www.petoskeynews.com in the comments section on the gas prices story. Or find us on Facebook. Petoskey: $3.85 -$3.79 Charlevoix: $3.77 Boyne City: $3.85 East Jordan: $3.73 Traverse City: $3.73-$3.76 CHEAPEST: Traverse City

The Muslim holiday Ramadan begins on Friday, July 20, in the United States. We are asking people in Northern Michigan who observe the holiday to contact us. Please send an email to Debbie McGuiness, News-Review religion editor, at dmcguiness@petoskeynews.com, message @DebbieMcGuiness on Twitter or look for the Petoskey News-Review on Facebook.

Marci Singer Even though I graduated from high school 20 years ago, I'm still being peer pressured. Believe it or not, it's my friends from high school who are putting the pressure on. Not to go to a party or to skip class, but to join Facebook. Everywhere I go, people are talking about Facebook, a social networking Web site that initially limited membership to Harvard students. The network later expanded to include any university student, then high school students, and finally, anyone aged 13 and over.

PETOSKEY - Petoskey's Wolf Byte Marketing now offers social media and management and design services, with a goal of helping Northern Michigan businesses improve their online marketing affordably. “Managing social media channels like Facebook and Twitter can be very time-consuming and the average business owner has so many other priorities,” said Marcie Wolf, owner of Wolf Byte Marketing. “People understand the importance of staying active with their social media marketing but they just don't have the time.” Wolf Byte Marketing offers services to help businesses promote their brand online using social media channels with highly engaged audiences.

Go ahead, admit it -- if you haven't seen it, then perhaps you've done it. A table full of people, maybe friends or family out for dinner and drinks, with barely any talking as most of their table is tapping away on their mobile phones. Maybe they're updating their Facebook status, sending out a tweet with a picture of their martini or texting somebody else at the table about someone else at the table. Six or seven people all near each other and still disconnected. It may be annoying to anybody who notices from the next table or across the room, but admit it -- you've watched as communication happens in a way, yet not as it should.

CHARLEVOIX - The picture of a Marine nearing the finish line of the Jeff Drenth Memorial 5K Venetian Festival Foot Race last Saturday, side-by-side with a young boy, has already had more than 140,000 likes on the Seals of Honor military Facebook page as of Wednesday. Other Facebook posts, including the original posted, are going viral at an break-neck rate. The Marine is 2012 Charlevoix High School graduate, Myles Kerr, son of Raymond and Carol Kerr of Charlevoix, who is on leave and will soon be heading to Camp Pendelton, a Marine base located south of Los Angeles, Calif.

MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) - Lifelong Laurium resident Vicky (Jurmo) Bastian is an animal lover who doesn't just say she cares about pets: She does something about it. She is the founder of the Facebook page Lost & Found Paws of the U.P., an online place that's become a godsend for Upper Peninsula people trying to find missing dogs, cats and other pets, The Mining Journal of Marquette reported. A popular FB page almost from its start, L&FP became even more well known after helping to reunite a downstate man, Scott Wilson, with his beloved boxer Gracie, who had run off into the woods along M-28 near Deerton after a traffic accident in January.

Deer hunters and others interested in deer management in Michigan are invited to join the Department of Natural Resources at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13, for "DNR Live: Deer. " "DNR Live: Deer" is a one-hour online forum designed to answer questions from the public about the state's deer population, hunting seasons and regulations. The video event will stream live on the DNR's Facebook page at www.facebook.com/midnr . A Facebook account is not required to access the page and watch the livestream event.

The Muslim holiday Ramadan begins on Friday, July 20, in the United States. We are asking people in Northern Michigan who observe the holiday to contact us. Please send an email to Debbie McGuiness, News-Review religion editor, at dmcguiness@petoskeynews.com, message @DebbieMcGuiness on Twitter or look for the Petoskey News-Review on Facebook.

Northern Michigan Review has implemented Facebook's comments plugin on its Petoskey News-Review, Charlevoix Courier and Gaylord Herald Times websites. Numerous other news outlets have begun using Facebook's comments plugin, including the Detroit Free Press and the Los Angeles Times, in an effort to offer a simpler, more interactive and more enjoyable commenting experience for readers. Following are some frequently asked questions regarding Facebook's comments plugin: Q: Why switch to Facebook commenting?

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Registered sex offenders who have been banned from social networking websites are fighting back in the nation's courts, successfully challenging many of the restrictions as infringements on free speech and their right to participate in common online discussions. The legal battles pit public outrage over sex crimes against cherished guarantees of individual freedom and the far-reaching communication changes brought by Facebook, LinkedIn and dozens of other sites.

GAYLORD - Browse the average Facebook profile page during the months of April and May and you will probably find pictures and posts about spring break vacations, maybe prom pictures or nature photos. Chris Nicholas, a graduate of Vanderbilt High School, has a page called Pace Per Mile. On his page there are pictures from places like Wincheseter, Va., Little Hocking, Ohio, and Lawrenceburg, Ind. Nicholas will soon be nearing the halfway point in his mission to run across the continental United States that began in Washington, D.C. “I feel good,” Nicholas said on Monday, jogging just south of Kansas City, Mo. “About 20 minutes ago I stopped at a walk-in chiropractor.

U.S. No-Fly list doubles in past year to 21,000 known or suspected terrorists WASHINGTON (AP) - Even as the Obama administration says it's close to defeating al-Qaida, the size of the government's secret list of suspected terrorists who are banned from flying to or within the United States has more than doubled in the past year, The Associated Press has learned. The no-fly list jumped from about 10,000 known or suspected terrorists one year ago to about 21,000, according to government figures provided to the AP. Most people on the list are from other countries; about 500 are Americans.